Feb 22, 2024 | Markets
Output expanded 0.1% in fourth quarter from previous quarter Mexico has held out against region rate-cutting trend Mexico’s economy barely grew in the fourth quarter, bolstering the chances that the central bank will join the regional trend for interest rate cuts as...
Feb 22, 2024 | Markets
After critics slammed Google‘s “woke” generative AI system, the company halted the ability of its Gemini tool to create images of people to fix what it acknowledged were “inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions.” Google’s Gemini, formerly known as...
Feb 22, 2024 | Markets
Google on Thursday said it is pausing its Gemini artificial intelligence image generation feature after saying it offers “inaccuracies” in historical pictures. Users on social media had been complaining that the AI tool generates images of historical figures — like...
Feb 21, 2024 | Markets
Investors in Chinese equities are becoming increasingly greedy as efforts by policy makers to stabilize the stock market gave a boost to confidence. The so-called Fear and Greed indicator, a measure of buying strength versus selling strength, for the CSI 300 Index...
Feb 21, 2024 | Markets
China quant funds have drawn regulatory scrutiny recently China’s CSI 300 index reached five-year low earlier this month China’s equity rout a few weeks ago was exacerbated by quantitative funds stampeding to exit positions, akin to a 2007 episode in the US when such...
Feb 21, 2024 | Markets
Shortly after the recovery from the pandemic recession began, the U.S. economy entered a period of high inflation as surging demand, severe supply disruptions, and worker shortages combined to create large imbalances and inflationary pressures in the economy. More...